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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 908928, member: 112&quot;]I asked about mintage because of your original question about the dots being die markers. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now if I recall between you and another guy you have found 6 or 8 different variations for the location of these dots. That would mean an equal number of dies was used.</p><p><br /></p><p>But given that the coin in question is an FAO coin, they would have made a minimal number of dies to keep cost down. And an average coin die can strike up to a million coins. So with a mintage of 500k I feel it is safe to assume that there were at most two dies, possibly only 1, used to strike those coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>That tends to say that the theory of the dots being die markers is not correct. Now it doesn&#039;t explain how they got on the coins, but it does tend to answer your question.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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